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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their houses a few day ago they had no reason to expect "welcome home" signs, but they had every reason to expect their rooms to be in a livable condition. Now livable, for the average student who passes the academic year in a rather unkempt condition, does not mean gleaming sinks, glowing floors, and shiny new paint. All that is demanded is a clean sink, a usable shower or tub, and a comparatively dust-free bedroom. This is not demanding too much. But the returning undergraduate found it all too easy to carve his initials in the layers of dust...
...powers seemed truly to catch Nasser unawares. "Instead of continuing the game," the tennis-playing young dictator complained to a friend, "Eden has picked up the ball and walked off the court." In uncharacteristic haste Nasser ordered his Washington ambassador to protest to John Foster Dulles that the plan "means war"-just as Dulles was about to explain to his press conference that that was precisely what it did not mean. Then, in his first important-if insufficient-shift toward compromise, Nasser let it be known through the Indian government that he would be ready to "internationalize" Suez Canal tolls...
...along the 103-mile canal. Above the uproar, Eden's voice rang out. "In the event [of Egyptian interference]. Her Majesty's government and others concerned will be free to take such further steps as seem to be required, either through the United Nations or by other means, for the assertion of their rights." "What do you mean by that?" shouted Laborite S. O. Davies. "You are talking about...
...simple Picto sentence: I 'A. 9 Q-X I <- - 6 (She walks under the trees and speaks to a man). When it comes to more sophisticated Picto sentiments, th6 bracket is indispensable. ? J makes the substantive of a verb, i Qp to love ; [ (J J love. ^_ j means to symbolize. Thus it can be used in conjunction with p (flag) to mean nation, iPj , or in conjunction with d (the smallest element of a whole) to mean citizen, J «p I . Picto's vocabulary is kept as small as it is by the adroit combination of ideas...
Hell in the Cellar. The word is Entmythologisieren, translated into English as "demythologization." This, says Bultmann, is what the New Testament needs if it is to mean anything real to laymen of today. For to modern man, he argues, the world of the Gospels seems as different from our world as Mars. The New Testament universe is a snug house with hell in the cellar and heaven upstairs. Angels from above and demons from below are constantly busy on the ground floor, and the end of everything is momentarily expected, with the graves giving up their dead for judgment...